Detectives arrest a Polish citizen and three Bangladeshis in connection with recent automated teller machine frauds in Bangladesh.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates’ Court on Monday granted 6-day remands for the German citizen who forged Polish identity and three staffs of City Bank Limited in connection with recent automated teller machine frauds in Bangladesh.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mazharul Islam granted the remands this afternoon after the investigation officer Shahrab Mia of Detective Branch, prayed 10-day remands for each of the accused.
Accused foreigner is Thomas who forged a Polish passport with the name Piotr Szcdepan Mazurek and the Bangladeshis are Moksed Ali Maksud, Rezaul Karim Shahin and Refat Ahmed Ronym, all staffs of City Bank.
They were sued under the second clause of section 56 in Information Technology Act.
Earlier, police at a news briefing said Thomas confessed that he was actually a German and forged a Polish friend’s passport with the name Piotr Szcdepan Mazurek entered Bangladesh with it.
Thomas said an international gang was involved in the ATM fraud in Bangladesh realising the low security system. He also confessed that the East Europe based gang is active in Asia and African nations.
Thomas informed police he masterminded the ATM fraud in Bangladesh along with a London-based Bangladeshi, a Bulgarian and a Ukrainian.
The United Commercial Bank in a complaint filed with police on February 14, said CCTV camera footage had revealed a foreigner installing a skimming device at an ATM booth to steal account information.
Police said five foreigners having affinity with the man in the footage were under watch. The gang had installed skimmers and video cameras at six booths of the UCB, Eastern Bank Limited and City Bank to steal client information.
Media reports citing police said 1,200 transactions took place after the device installation and 40 bank cards were cloned to withdraw Tk 2 million. EBL had identified 24 victims of such fraudulency and reimbursed them, while City Bank filed a complaint with police over the ATM scams.
Source: New Age